Karen Wants The Orcas In Charge
@riceboilsover.bsky.social
#TeamOrca. I live in the woods. Book collector. Former sociologist. Plant nerd. Fan of squirrels.
#MaskUp because why would you want to be sick?
#COVIDisNotOver and #COVIDisNotMild
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#MaskUp because why would you want to be sick?
#COVIDisNotOver and #COVIDisNotMild
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Pleased to speak with @nickturse.bsky.social.
“Oversight needs to be broader than this one incident. It needs to cover the entire maritime bombing campaign. And it needs to go beyond the Department of Defense. We need to know how this policy was formulated in the first instance.”
“Oversight needs to be broader than this one incident. It needs to cover the entire maritime bombing campaign. And it needs to go beyond the Department of Defense. We need to know how this policy was formulated in the first instance.”
Video of U.S. Military Killing Boat Strike Survivors Is Horrifying, Lawmakers Reveal
“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service.”
theintercept.com/2025/12/04/b...
“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service.”
theintercept.com/2025/12/04/b...
Video of U.S. Military Killing Boat Strike Survivors Is Horrifying, Lawmakers Reveal
“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service.”
theintercept.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Pleased to speak with @nickturse.bsky.social.
“Oversight needs to be broader than this one incident. It needs to cover the entire maritime bombing campaign. And it needs to go beyond the Department of Defense. We need to know how this policy was formulated in the first instance.”
“Oversight needs to be broader than this one incident. It needs to cover the entire maritime bombing campaign. And it needs to go beyond the Department of Defense. We need to know how this policy was formulated in the first instance.”
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Hello, I'm speaking to you from #Gaza. I'm a lost soul, a survivor of the horrors of war. I'm still struggling to provide my family with a decent life and put food on the table. I hope my voice reaches the world. Read my story on GFM and support us.
Every word gives us strength.🤎
gofund.me/a0a540b8
Every word gives us strength.🤎
gofund.me/a0a540b8
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Hello, I'm speaking to you from #Gaza. I'm a lost soul, a survivor of the horrors of war. I'm still struggling to provide my family with a decent life and put food on the table. I hope my voice reaches the world. Read my story on GFM and support us.
Every word gives us strength.🤎
gofund.me/a0a540b8
Every word gives us strength.🤎
gofund.me/a0a540b8
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Leslie Lee III, an educator, critic, and Long COVID advocate, died on November 10.
“He was one of the few voices in leftist spaces that refused to buy into COVID denialism," Taylor Lorenz told @mileswgriffis.bsky.social. "He was such a strong voice..."
bit.ly/44MICG4
“He was one of the few voices in leftist spaces that refused to buy into COVID denialism," Taylor Lorenz told @mileswgriffis.bsky.social. "He was such a strong voice..."
bit.ly/44MICG4
December 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Leslie Lee III, an educator, critic, and Long COVID advocate, died on November 10.
“He was one of the few voices in leftist spaces that refused to buy into COVID denialism," Taylor Lorenz told @mileswgriffis.bsky.social. "He was such a strong voice..."
bit.ly/44MICG4
“He was one of the few voices in leftist spaces that refused to buy into COVID denialism," Taylor Lorenz told @mileswgriffis.bsky.social. "He was such a strong voice..."
bit.ly/44MICG4
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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End stage capitalism sure is something
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
End stage capitalism sure is something
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
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what with the "shrug, eugenics isn't inherently bad" guy and the "accommodations have gone too far" defenders, it really feels like a rough week (or rougher week than usual) for disabled people, and I would politely ask the universe to KNOCK IT OFF
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
what with the "shrug, eugenics isn't inherently bad" guy and the "accommodations have gone too far" defenders, it really feels like a rough week (or rougher week than usual) for disabled people, and I would politely ask the universe to KNOCK IT OFF
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Let's just keep pushing AI into crucial tasks just because a bunch of rich people are heavily invested in it
Medicare’s New AI Experiment Sparks Alarm Among Doctors, Lawmakers | A new model will test AI prior authorizations in 6 states, including neighboring New Jersey and Ohio; physicians fear more denials and delays for older adults, reports @stateline.org.
Medicare’s New AI Experiment Sparks Alarm Among Doctors, Lawmakers - Bucks County Beacon
A new model will test AI prior authorizations in 6 states, including neighboring New Jersey and Ohio; physicians fear more denials and delays for older adults.
buckscountybeacon.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Let's just keep pushing AI into crucial tasks just because a bunch of rich people are heavily invested in it
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It is a disgrace that ACIP has been hijacked by a flock of radical anti-vaxxers with no knowledge, training or experience in epidemiology, immunology, vaccine development, or any related field.
So far an anti-vax climate scientist and an anti-vax Harvard MBA have presented.
ACIP is cooked.
So far an anti-vax climate scientist and an anti-vax Harvard MBA have presented.
ACIP is cooked.
December 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It is a disgrace that ACIP has been hijacked by a flock of radical anti-vaxxers with no knowledge, training or experience in epidemiology, immunology, vaccine development, or any related field.
So far an anti-vax climate scientist and an anti-vax Harvard MBA have presented.
ACIP is cooked.
So far an anti-vax climate scientist and an anti-vax Harvard MBA have presented.
ACIP is cooked.
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Ever wondered how virus laden aerosols (“virosols”) form and spread? 🌬️
The Aerosol Research Centre in Taiwan has a clear, illustrated guide showing how airborne transmission works and what simple steps actually help.
🔗 shh-uk.org/understan...
#CleanAir #Virosols #longcovid
The Aerosol Research Centre in Taiwan has a clear, illustrated guide showing how airborne transmission works and what simple steps actually help.
🔗 shh-uk.org/understan...
#CleanAir #Virosols #longcovid
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Ever wondered how virus laden aerosols (“virosols”) form and spread? 🌬️
The Aerosol Research Centre in Taiwan has a clear, illustrated guide showing how airborne transmission works and what simple steps actually help.
🔗 shh-uk.org/understan...
#CleanAir #Virosols #longcovid
The Aerosol Research Centre in Taiwan has a clear, illustrated guide showing how airborne transmission works and what simple steps actually help.
🔗 shh-uk.org/understan...
#CleanAir #Virosols #longcovid
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This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....
docs.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Omfg we are so cooked
NEW: Tracy Beth Høeg, a sports medicine physician who has released several preprints about the risks of Covid vaccines (including with Vinay Prasad), is now the acting top drug regulator at the FDA. www.fda.gov/news-events/...
FDA Announces Leadership Appointments at Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
FDA Announces Leadership Appointments at Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
www.fda.gov
December 4, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Omfg we are so cooked
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Here's the thing, though: There's joy in also just doing the nice thing for people! Accommodating those who don't "need" it isn't Letting Them Get Away With It — it's just being nice! If you must, it's being generous to them. That's okay, you're a generous person! Let yourself be okay with that.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Here's the thing, though: There's joy in also just doing the nice thing for people! Accommodating those who don't "need" it isn't Letting Them Get Away With It — it's just being nice! If you must, it's being generous to them. That's okay, you're a generous person! Let yourself be okay with that.
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It's very hard to understand that everyone should just be accommodated. There's enough to go around, truly. You've been sold a story that we're all scrabbling for some finite resource, and They are taking it from you, and the answer to that taking is systemic punishment, backed by systemic violence.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
It's very hard to understand that everyone should just be accommodated. There's enough to go around, truly. You've been sold a story that we're all scrabbling for some finite resource, and They are taking it from you, and the answer to that taking is systemic punishment, backed by systemic violence.
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As someone who has yelled about these laws and their terrible privacy violations and security problems, please be aware they're in effect or coming into enforcement rapidly.
Missouri’s age-gate law took effect earlier this week, meaning 25 US states have passed a form of age verification.
“The thing that people misunderstand most about age verification is that it actually applies to all of us ... Everyone will have to interact with this.” www.wired.com/story/age-ve...
“The thing that people misunderstand most about age verification is that it actually applies to all of us ... Everyone will have to interact with this.” www.wired.com/story/age-ve...
The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back
Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.
www.wired.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
As someone who has yelled about these laws and their terrible privacy violations and security problems, please be aware they're in effect or coming into enforcement rapidly.
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Pokémon Go to the retirement home.
full offense i do not know why hillary clinton is even talking
December 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Pokémon Go to the retirement home.
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We have to apply pressure. Give Johnson a choice between being a hero or someone who has failed us, rather than simply casting him as a villain and accepting defeat. If you live in Chicago, share this piece with everyone you know and tell them to reach out to their alderman and the mayor's office.
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
We have to apply pressure. Give Johnson a choice between being a hero or someone who has failed us, rather than simply casting him as a villain and accepting defeat. If you live in Chicago, share this piece with everyone you know and tell them to reach out to their alderman and the mayor's office.
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Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.
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h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
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When you post your #SpotifyWrapped, you’re not just doing free advertising for a company that exploits artists, recruits for ICE, and invests in AI war machines.
You’re actively celebrating the fact that you’re being surveilled and participating in your own surveillance.
Maybe … don’t do that?
You’re actively celebrating the fact that you’re being surveilled and participating in your own surveillance.
Maybe … don’t do that?
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
When you post your #SpotifyWrapped, you’re not just doing free advertising for a company that exploits artists, recruits for ICE, and invests in AI war machines.
You’re actively celebrating the fact that you’re being surveilled and participating in your own surveillance.
Maybe … don’t do that?
You’re actively celebrating the fact that you’re being surveilled and participating in your own surveillance.
Maybe … don’t do that?
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We have a white supremacist government determined to terrorize and disenfranchise people of color. It's obvious. We need to say it, and we need to stop it.
BERMAN: How many of the 40,000 people born in Somalia living in Minnesota do you consider to be garbage?
McLAUGHLIN: We're really looking at the data
BERMAN: All of them?
McLAUGHLIN: This is not about politics. This is about public safety. We saw the terrorist attack against us last week.
McLAUGHLIN: We're really looking at the data
BERMAN: All of them?
McLAUGHLIN: This is not about politics. This is about public safety. We saw the terrorist attack against us last week.
December 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We have a white supremacist government determined to terrorize and disenfranchise people of color. It's obvious. We need to say it, and we need to stop it.
Masks are our last, first, and best line of defense, and it would really benefit y’all to get used to the idea of wearing them more because soon they might be the only tool we have left.
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Masks are our last, first, and best line of defense, and it would really benefit y’all to get used to the idea of wearing them more because soon they might be the only tool we have left.
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yes, it’s really that bad.
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
yes, it’s really that bad.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”